Firstly I had to prepare a screen. This includes cleaning the screen, making it photosensitive and transferring my repeat pattern on to the prepared screen. Once I had a screen and colors all I had to do was print onto fabric using a squeegee I spread the ink across the screen 3 too 4 times to get the pattern to  print onto the fabric. I worked out from this process that there are several factors that can affect your print quality. the type of fabric can effect your print quality. The type of fabric effects how many times you need to go over the screen with the squeegee to get a good print, the lighter the fabric the less times you need to go over it. the screen has to be bone dry after washing it to print in a different color or the print could bleed and the paper underneath the fabric is secured down or the print could come out incomplete. All of these I worked out because I made these mistakes at least once.

I was shown that if you put an  image or pattern into Photoshop you can copy the image and flip or rotate it to make a repeat pattern. the only reason I could do this fairly easily, was because I had written instructions, that I could refer back too. I know that computers, especially programs like Photoshop, confuse me endlessly. This is why I will have to work on these  skills a lot more before I will be able to do stuff like make repeat patterns without clear instructions.

I have decided to use colors that describe pain for my color pallet. Such as the colors of blood or the colors in a bruise- putrid green, sickly yellow and plum purple.

I started off with a downwards splash of red ink that i interpreted as a skirt. Once placed on the body the red of the skirt would start near the pelvis of the body, so as to give the impression of a woman on her menstrual cycle. I found this hard to convert into a 3D idea so i started by playing around with red paper. Taking inspiration from flamenco skirts and the way that the frill of the skirt almost forms a wave. After further research i found out that this was accomplished by cutting a spiral of fabric and then sewing it in a diagonal line. I tried this out in paper to get an idea.

I had a lot of trouble thinking up design ideas. So I went about it from a different angle, creating large scale unstructured drawings, pulling interesting shapes from them. To create these drawings I splashed hot wax on paper, then splashing over the top with red ink. This means that the ink wont stain the paper were the wax is. I would then draw in a body to see what it would look like as a garment. I am especially proud of this drawing because I used the negative space, which I feel makes the drawing more dramatic.

To start of my exploration of this brief I have looked at skin and how it responds through different mediums. To accomplish this I painted my skin with different mediums such as graphite,oil, lotion, soup and printing inc. I would mix the graphite with the oil, for example, apply it to my body and print with my body. the medium that by far worked the best was the printing inc. I applied this to my chest, neck and back, then laying down on the paper to get the print. what I found most interesting about this was how accurately this medium picked up all the tiny little hairs and pours in my skin.

Touch, I believe to be the most underrated sense.  We forget its there until we experience pleasure or pain, especially pain. Through this brief I plan to explore different types of pain and how they can relate to fabric and clothes. How can I translate a bruise on to fabric or turn a cut into a costume.

As with the end of any project, I always doubt if iv’e done enough. My work had it’s holes which gave me an extra adrenaline kick to finish in time. The one thing that gave me a confidence about my work was setting up my studio space. It gave me a  chance to display what i felt was my most successful work. Organizing them in such a way as to make my studio space eye catching and memorable.

I chose to display some life drawings , photographs of my fanned tutu, and my masks. These were my main focuses I re-purposed my paper tutu to go round one of my masks to make it stand out. This I felt was a inventive way to display both my tutu and a mask without falling into the trap of showing them off on a mannequin, the way people would expect.

I feel that my final display would give any spectator a window into my brain. I love the idea of people wondering where my ideas come from and how I  make them a reality.

My tutu was sitting on its mannequin unfinished looking sad. I gave myself a mentle shake and got up to do something about it. So I set myself a deadline.

We had been having photography lessons in the past weeks, so I felt fairly confident about using it, ish. I went ahead and booked the booth, for the following week.

One of my classmates has been doing ballet since they were small. I asked her if she’d be willing to be my model, she agreed. Now i just needed to figure out how she was going to wear my tutu.

First problem I had to tackle was fairly simple. My tutu was made up of individual sections folded into fans. I had to fix them all together. Even though they were made of paper, I felt like it was a good idea to express my interest in sewing as I plan to take the fashion and textiles pathway. After I had sewn all of the pieces together, I had a really long fan. I didn’t want to fix both ends together until I had my model to make sure it fit right. I experimented with punching holes through each fan to weave string through them as a way of fixing the tutu to my model.

When it actually came to the photo-shoot I tied the tutu on my model but it didn’t hold its structure as well s it did pinned to the mannequin. As a last minute panicked solution I stapled the tutu to my models shirt to make the tutu stick out more. In the end it looked pretty good. If i could do this again  would defiantly find a way to make the tutu hold its form as well as a professional ballerinas tutu does.